Ring - Peephole Cam

Hi all, trying to make my mind up between these 3 - Tapo D235, Eufy E340, Ring Peephole cam. I need a video doorbell mainly for 2 way talk and to keep an eye on parcels. I am disabled and can sometimes take a long time to get to my door. At the moment I have no way of speaking to delivery drivers so can sometimes miss deliveries, parcels get delivered to neighbours, or at best they are left at my door. The first two are incredibly frustrating. I also sometimes need to leave parcels outside my door for couriers to collect, as again my slow speed of getting to the door means they sometimes just leave. Motion sensing capability is not really of importance, I am focusing mainly on just something that I can speak to someone through when they are at my door. And if they leave a parcel there, just to be able to keep an eye between them leaving it and me being able to get to the door. Or if I need to leave a parcel out, to keep an eye til it's collected. I live in a block of flats with fire doors, so bells need to be surface mounted using 3M type sticky pads, or peephole type. The Ring has this covered, the Tapo comes with a sticky pad, and Eufy I could use a suitable 3rd party one I've found. We cannot drill any holes for hard wiring either so they must be battery powered. I like the Ring's much smaller size as the battery is mounted inside the door, it's more subtle and less likely to make neighbours potentially feel uncomfortable. I also like that it is the most physically secure given it is actually screwed together through the door peephole. But I massively resent that if I did want to record anything or use motion detection for a short time, that it would require a subscription. I also have seen video examples and the field of view is not wide enough to see parcels. Between the Eufy and Tapo, the Eufy is lower profile and being fully black is more subtle against our dark blue doors. The main selling point for me is it has the separate camera for parcel monitoring. But perhaps the tapo's sensor is wide enough for genuine head to toe? I have a couple of echo pops and would like the doorbell to alert on these when someone rings the bell. Ideally I'd also like to be able to turn off any chime that happens on the doorbell itself, or be able to turn the volume of this right down. Apologies that this is quite long and rambling but perhaps the good people of this sub might be able to help me make a decision!

I have a battery powered Ring and a hardwired Logitech Doorbell. I can get a notification, open the app and speak to the person on Ring before I ever get the initial notification from Logitech/Homekit. I keep Logitech just for the additional camera angle. But I could new depend on a timely notification.

I've a bettery powered ring door bell, it's dead handy

Ring do battery powered ones. No wiring needed. Just charge it occasionally while you're at home. I think they even do little solar panel accessory so you really shouldn't need to charge it often

I switched from Ring to Reolink. I have all video saved locally and I can pass it through Frigate for really good AI detection. It also integrates perfectly with Home Assistant. You can get their NVR to make this simple. My switch started because I had a package stolen and the Ring camera didn’t show it for some reason.

Powered wifi cams for doorbells plus POE. This is Reolink. For Ring my doorbells were battery powered plus a bunch of wifi cams.

Why downvotes? This would seem like a good solution. I currently have a ring doorbell using Wi-Fi. I use the motion detection to trigger outdoor lights and it actually works quite nicely, very little delay. However I don't know that I'm going to buy another ring so a reolink with Wi-Fi would be a very interesting choice.

I bought a house with ring cameras on the exterior and as the door bell. I've never like them and this has pushed me over the edge. They are all coming out.

Ring is the worst doorbell overpriced shit quality poor integration and poor build quality. Plus the subscription is so dumb. Wish ubiquity integrated better because it’s the best doorbell by leaps nd bounds

I have the ring WiFi version and it works great and instantly

My standard Ring doorbell cam has only shutdown once due to cold this winter. I don't have to charge it for months, either.

I have 3 ring cameras, they're really good. 

I use my Ring camera without a subscription. I got it connected to Home Assistant and Scrypted. Works perfectly, and with an upgraded doorbell transformer, I can record 24/7

TP-Link's Kasa or Tapo devices are what you want. Get a large enough memory card and you'll have 24/7 recording for a month. Great quality video as well. I previously had Ring, Nest, and Wyze doorbell cameras, my Tapo doorbell camera is superior to those.

Beware the Aqara. I gave up on it's crappy Wi-Fi and link from chime to doorbell, both of which failed constantly. Returned. I went back to my Ring with Scrypted, but that's not great. Recently, notifications just stopped and hence no recordings in HKSV. The live view or snapshots mostly works, some of the time. Still searching for the perfect match.

My Ring doorbell camera is fine. It just uses the existing doorbell wires for power and wifi for connecting.